Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Taking share off specialty stores. Pearson sees apparel, homewares and toys as being “destination” categories for Target, where it not only can compete against other value retailers on quality and price, but take market share off of premium specialty stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 24, 2023

We have an Amazon-level warehouse and fulfillment center, and a customer service team that needs to input all of our orders, so there was a lot of backend development that we needed to do in order to connect with TikTok, beyond what smaller sellers need.” Either way it’s good for us.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

These locations include physical stores that take in returns for other retail brands, as well as office buildings, post offices and shipping company stores, kiosks and more. From a customer perspective, according to research from Optoro , 66% of consumers prefer to bring returns to stores rather than shipping them back.

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Rangeme

MAY 9, 2022

After working in the hospitality industry for more than 20 years and gaining years of buying experience, Arkwright decided it was finally time to open her own specialty store and cafe. We are also exploring options to expand our online presence by shipping some of our products.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Sakai also suggested that retailers encourage curbside buy online, return in-store (BORIS) during and after the holidays. Consolidating returns at a store location is less costly than paying to ship one item from a residence, and a larger volume of customers can be moved through quickly if they don’t have to exit their cars.

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